Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
NIKOLAI GOGOLNothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
More Nikolai Gogol Quotes
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We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.
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Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die.
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In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
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The more destruction there is everywhere, the more it shows the activity of town authorities.
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The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
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There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
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Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
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Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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I tell everyone very plainly that I take bribes, but what kind of bribes? Why, greyhound puppies. That’s a totally different matter.
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How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
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They’re thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he’ll learn all that is necessary for him to know.
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There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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There exists a kind of laughter which is worthy to be ranked with the higher lyric emotions and is infinitely different from the twitching of a mean merrymaker.
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Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
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Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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